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Contents
Introduction
M. O'Hanlon
Chapter 1. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of Artefacts
H. Gardner
Chapter 2. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904
R. Buschmann
Chapter 3. 'Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British New Guinea
M. Quinnell
Chapter 4. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898
E. Edwards
Chapter 5. Collecting Pygmies: the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911
C. Ballard
Chapter 6. One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New Guinea
R.Welsch
Chapter 7. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians
M. Young
Chapter 8. Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art Styles
C. Kaufmann
Chapter 9. On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism
C. Gosden
Chapter 10. Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and Anthropologist
C. Knowles
Epilogue
N. Thomas
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
Hunting the Gatherers
Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s
Edited by Michael O'Hanlon and Robert Welsch
306 pages, 23 illus., 5 maps, 6 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-57181-811-9 Hb Published (January 2001)
eISBN 978-0-85745-691-5 eBook